TURBULENT MEXICO
TRAIN HELD UP.
TWENTY-FIVE PERSONS KILLED
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,
MEXICO CITY, August 17, (Received August 18, at 10.30 a.m.)
Hundreds of bandits placed an obstruction on the track of the Vera Cruz train near San Salvador. Twenty-five passengers were killed by rifle fire, and their bodies robbed.
The train was completely looted and partially burned.—Sydney ‘Sun’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18715, 18 August 1924, Page 6
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